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joining us is john dickerson of cbs. >> the long-standing tradition that in campaigns politics stops at the water's edge, senator van den berg's quote that may be a little bit outdated but romney jumped in so fast here that it was just kind of breaking with the normal tradition. but there is another point here which is i talked to a very senior military man last night who said first reports are always wrong. the reason you hold back for a minute is you just know the news is going to change. and in this case iting chad there were more deaths. and so romney's statement looked out of sync with the mourning and the shock that was going on when everybody woke up on wednesday morning. >> rose: we continue with a look at that and more with david brooks of "the new york times". and it underlines i think a problem with romney, which he is just not a philosophical guy. you know, the people who know him well like him. they say he's a good manager. he just doesn't have philosophical interests. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the implication of protests in the middle east and the
joining us is john dickerson of cbs. >> the long-standing tradition that in campaigns politics stops at the water's edge, senator van den berg's quote that may be a little bit outdated but romney jumped in so fast here that it was just kind of breaking with the normal tradition. but there is another point here which is i talked to a very senior military man last night who said first reports are always wrong. the reason you hold back for a minute is you just know the news is going to...
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reports from wyatt andrews and john dickerson. two high-ranking justice ospartment officials lost their jobs today over a botched gun running investigation first revealed by correspondent sharyl attkisson. cops in arizona are now required to check the immigration status of many people they stop. john blackstone reports on a major change. and allen pizzey on an intriguing discovery that started a debate about whether jesus was married. >> and then jesus said to his disciples, "my wife." oraptioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is a growing perception among voters that the economy is improving. and our new poll out today shows that it's helping president obama's prospects for reelection. 48 days now before election day, here is how the race looks. it takes 270 electoral votes to win the white house, and our cbs news election teams estimates 237 are solid for the president toweaning toward him. mitt romney has 206. t for the next seven weeks, they'll be fighting ove
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joining us is the senior editor for barons and cbs news political director, john dickerson. great to have you with us. >>ultimately, the numbers are political. i want to start with you, michael, on what they really say about the jobs picture in this kun trip. >> remains sluggish. been the same story for a while. the private sector continues to add jobs. but at a rate that can't cut into this pool of vital workers. that's why it's stubbornly high. the economy is in slow growth mode. this is not a jobs market that says anything different than an economy growing at somewhere less than 2%. it's not as if there's one big thing keeping people from hiring except a slow global economy. >> michael, one of the alarming things in the report is the continuing decline of the participation rate down to 63.5%. we haven't seen that for 31 years. incompetent think the white house is trying to spin this one way and the other side another. is it just people retiring out of the labor force, baby boomers or is it people giving up looking for work? >> it's both. in retrospect, somewhere down road
joining us is the senior editor for barons and cbs news political director, john dickerson. great to have you with us. >>ultimately, the numbers are political. i want to start with you, michael, on what they really say about the jobs picture in this kun trip. >> remains sluggish. been the same story for a while. the private sector continues to add jobs. but at a rate that can't cut into this pool of vital workers. that's why it's stubbornly high. the economy is in slow growth mode....
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turning now to our political johntor john dickerson who is in charlotte tonight. ch john, obama officials have had a imugh time answering the the tion, are you better off than you were four years ago. how big a problem is that for them as they head into this convention? >> well, it's a central obstacle of this convention. they can't say things are better off because people don't feel n'ke they're better off. so what the obama campaign has tried to do is change the ings are from do you feel like erings are better to will things be better? itll, that's a tough thing to do in a campaign in part because it makes voters think you might be trying to fool them. >> meanwhile the obama campaign will try to lean at least a leas little bit here on bill clinton at this convention. what are they expecting from that? >> well, they're hoping to get people excited. when the economy weighs down on a party the way it is on this one here in charlotte they need breone to break through that. if anybody can break through and make excitement that's bill clinton. he's even been quoted by
turning now to our political johntor john dickerson who is in charlotte tonight. ch john, obama officials have had a imugh time answering the the tion, are you better off than you were four years ago. how big a problem is that for them as they head into this convention? >> well, it's a central obstacle of this convention. they can't say things are better off because people don't feel n'ke they're better off. so what the obama campaign has tried to do is change the ings are from do you...
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dickerson. we are in the buying apple and this is face the captioning sponsored by cbs >> and now from new york, face the nation with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again and wnl welcome to face the nation. former president bill clinton, we are here at the clinton global initiative in new york, mr. president, this has become an important event. you bring together world leaders, philanthropists presidential candidates, people with ideas, time magazine said this week it has become kind of an ebay of philanthropy, where you put together people with needs, bring them together with people who have money and the means to resolve their problems, whether it is poverty, disease, just improving their daily lives, you get everybody in one place, and go at it from there. what do you hope to accomplish at this meeting? >> i hope to help people design their philanthropy and fit their partners in a way that gives them better and quicker results. i mean, all along we have been trying to answer the ho
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trish regan, bloomberg television anchor, and host of "street smart" and our own john dickerson. let's talk some politics because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs >> and now from the site of the democratic national convention, face the nation with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. welcome to "face the nation." we are on the floor of the time warner center in charlotte. with us today, former new mexico governor, and maryland governor martin o'malley. governor o'malley, let me just start with you. we come out of the republican convention, and their theme seems to be everybody is disappointed in barack obama. they don't say he's a bad guy. it's like from the requested wizard of ozits" when he said, "i'm not a bad man. i'm just a bad wizard." that seems to be what they're saying about barack obama. how do you handle that? >> look, there were three things that you didn't see at the republican convention. you didn't see any new ideas for creating jobs. you didn't see george bush. and you didn't see mitt romney's tax returns. and the fact of the mat
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dickerson. let's talk a little bit. we've been talking about this red line that netanyahu wants the president to draw. david, you had a pretty interesting story in the paper this week about the red line that mitt romney's people have drawn, and there seems to be some disagreement with where he is and where his advisers are. what's that all about? >> well, his advisers have laid out a case, bob, that mitt romney would put the red line pretty close to where the israelis would have it, which is to say, that the u.s. and israel would need to act some time before iran actually got a weapon. i think the phrase they used was, "you can't let iran get a screwdriver turn away from the weapon." but then the candidate himself gave an interview to abc, and i don't know if he forgot his own position out here or if he just misspoke, but he seemed to draw the line closer to where president obama is, which is to say, he said, "well, we're in the same place. we can't let them get a weapon." well, it's a crucial d
dickerson. let's talk a little bit. we've been talking about this red line that netanyahu wants the president to draw. david, you had a pretty interesting story in the paper this week about the red line that mitt romney's people have drawn, and there seems to be some disagreement with where he is and where his advisers are. what's that all about? >> well, his advisers have laid out a case, bob, that mitt romney would put the red line pretty close to where the israelis would have it, which...
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and cbs news political director, john dickerson. this is "face the nation" upon captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. with >> good morning again. and here is the latest news from overnight. four american military people have been killed in an attack in southern afghanistan. this happened when at least one afghan police officer opened fire on them at a checkpoint. the state department has ordered all nonessential u.s. embassy personnel to leave tunisia and sudan, and protests against americans continue in at least 20 countries. we're going to start this morning with libya and the latest on tuesday's attack. we spoke a little earlier this morning with the president of libya's national congress, mohamed magariaf. how many people have now been arrested, mr. president? >> oh, i think the number has reached about 50. >> schieffer: about 50 people have been arrested. who are these people? you have said they were connected to al qaeda. are they all foreigners? >> a few of them are. >>
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dickerson. we are in the buying apple and this is face the captioning sponsored by cbs >> and now from new york, face the nation with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again and wnl welcome to face the nation. former president bill clinton, we are here at the clinton global initiative in new york, mr. president, this has become an important event. you bring together world leaders, philanthropists presidential candidates, people with ideas, time magazine said this week it has become kind of an ebay of philanthropy, where you put together people with needs, bring them together with people who have money and the means to resolve their problems, whether it is poverty, disease, just improving their daily lives, you get everybody in one place, and go at it from there. what do you hope to accomplish at this meeting? >> i hope to help people design their philanthropy and fit their partners in a way that gives them better and quicker results. i mean, all along we have been trying to answer the ho
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. >> pelley: our cbs news political director is john dickerson, and he is down there among the delegates as well. john. >> reporter: scott, a senior romney adviser said that their best negative ad is the weak economy because it's always running on a news station somewhere. 10 hours after the president speaks tonight, the unemployment figures will come out. the president knows what those numbers are. if they're not very good that may put a quick expiration date on whatever feeling he's able to create in this hall. we have seen this throughout the race. the polls have stayed stuck, and big events haven't seemed to move them. the hope in the obama campaign is something can break through. there's a line or a feeling the president gets through tonight that will help them in that tough news environment and live hatside the hall. >> pelley: john has been talking about how this race has been tied, it's been tied relentlessly for weeks. not even half a billion dollars in negative advertising has seemed to make a difference. >> reporter: no, and it's been stuck, as you say, scott, for a long, long
. >> pelley: our cbs news political director is john dickerson, and he is down there among the delegates as well. john. >> reporter: scott, a senior romney adviser said that their best negative ad is the weak economy because it's always running on a news station somewhere. 10 hours after the president speaks tonight, the unemployment figures will come out. the president knows what those numbers are. if they're not very good that may put a quick expiration date on whatever feeling...
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reports from wyatt andrews and john dickerson. two high-ranking justice department officials lost their jobs today over a botched gun running investigation first revealed by correspondent sharyl attkisson. cops in arizona are now required to check the immigration status of many people they stop. john blackstone reports on a major change. and allen pizzey on an intriguing discovery that started a debate about whether jesus was married. >> and then jesus said to his disciples, "my wife." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is a growing perception among voters that the economy is improving. and our new poll out today shows that it's helping president obama's prospects for reelection. 48 days now before election day, here is how the race looks. it takes 270 electoral votes to win the white house, and our cbs news election teams estimates 237 are solid for the president or leaning toward him. mitt romney has 206. so for the next seven weeks, they'll be fighting ov
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john dickerson, our cbs news political director is down on the convention floor and, john, the highlight tonight will be a speech by former president bill clinton. >> that's right. it is a picture of continuity and what is striking about that is in 2008, the tension between the two men was not just that barack obama was competing against hillary clinton, it was that barack obama was campaigning as a break from the clinton years, a break from clinton's kind of politics. now he is relying on that kind of politics and it is striking. usually a candidate arrives at a convention early to be seen with his wife, not this time. barack obama is going to recover and be seen, they hope, with bill clinton. that picture of continuity, that is the picture they want to see on the front pages tomorrow. >> pelley: john, thank you very much, bill plante is down on the convention floor and he has found bill daly of chicago, mr. daily used to be president obama's chief of staff. bill. >> i am with bill daly as you know was chief of staff to president obama and also was secretary of commerce for president cl
john dickerson, our cbs news political director is down on the convention floor and, john, the highlight tonight will be a speech by former president bill clinton. >> that's right. it is a picture of continuity and what is striking about that is in 2008, the tension between the two men was not just that barack obama was competing against hillary clinton, it was that barack obama was campaigning as a break from the clinton years, a break from clinton's kind of politics. now he is relying...
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one official told john dickerson that east would was not scripted because they did not want to rain his creativity but a romney adviser and acknowledged was a distraction another republican official put it is clint eastwood if elvis wants to sing along songs you turn off his mind? anthony mason cbs news >>> a winery's says it makes its wind by honor courage and bravery. juliette goodrich with more >>> meet josh lane >>> i've done three deployments >>> former marine turned winemaker a tasty did not care for. >>> no respect for ed then all of a sudden now i love that >>> when he was discharged from marines he found his mission help employ veterans through want he now calls the dollar winery >>> the greatest thing we have our veterans >>> veterans who otherwise would not have the job >>> i sort of fallen on hard times >>> what happens here the magic happens >>> an ambitious endeavor but when judge started he did not know anything about making want he turned to the resources we all turned to youtube >>> is youtube winery in a modest warehouse in livermore with 1 a. of vineyard employs dozen
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we'll get analysis from john dickerson. plus more on the arrest of a fake pilot who tried to continue his way into the cockpit of an airplane. and the star from ""mike and molly"" will visit this morning. for now that will do it for the morning news for this monday. as always appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody, have a great day. iate you watching. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody, have a great day. ,,,, >>> we begin with some breaking news out of a wood. it's happening on had mission. in one person has been shot.
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john dickerson is in our washington bureau. he's our political director. and, john, i wonder what impact does all this early voting have on the campaigns? t reporter: well, the presidential race is now on two reacks-- the traditional election track headed towards november 6 and the early voting track, where what the candidates say and two in these battleground states ask influence votes being cast right now. both candidates have traveled to early-voting states to implore voters to cast their ballots. barack obama will be preparing for debates in nevada, where cbs expects 65% of vote voters to vote early. his presence in the state of nevada stirs up activities for democrats who then will try to arck up their voters early. if a campaign can get lots of voters to vote early, then the campaign can spend its time and resources in other battleground states with other voters. >> pelley: these early votes aren't counted until election day. i wonder how do the campaigns know how people are voting early? >> the secretary of state in most of the early voting states h
john dickerson is in our washington bureau. he's our political director. and, john, i wonder what impact does all this early voting have on the campaigns? t reporter: well, the presidential race is now on two reacks-- the traditional election track headed towards november 6 and the early voting track, where what the candidates say and two in these battleground states ask influence votes being cast right now. both candidates have traveled to early-voting states to implore voters to cast their...
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john dickerson is our cbs news political director. and, john, what do you see in that number in. >> reporter: well the statisticians will remind us polls are just a snapshot and not predictive of what will happen but it does give us an indication of the underlying currents in the race. barack obama lost the senior vote to john mccain in florida by eight points in 2008. so for the president to be doing well in that traditional republican voting block is a danger sign for romney. strategists for both parties in florida agree obama is ahead in the state and the battle over medicare is helping make inroads with seniors. as nancy reported, the president is also doing better with blue collar white voters in ohio and doing better on the economy of the economy. whose happening is mitt romney is having to play defense with his own voting group. the time he has to spend shoring them up is time he's not spending getting swing voters. >> pelley: john, polls that are taken about this point in september sometimes predict the winner and sometimes th
john dickerson is our cbs news political director. and, john, what do you see in that number in. >> reporter: well the statisticians will remind us polls are just a snapshot and not predictive of what will happen but it does give us an indication of the underlying currents in the race. barack obama lost the senior vote to john mccain in florida by eight points in 2008. so for the president to be doing well in that traditional republican voting block is a danger sign for romney....
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as my colleague john dickerson observed, the president hugged clinton so hard after that speech last night, he looked like he was trying to burp him. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. last week we brought you a series of interviews here with mitt romney and his wife, anne. well, next week we'll have president obama right here on the cbs evening news. >> there was a remarkable momenh the pledge of allegiance led by gabriel gifford the former arizona congresswoman who is crerecovering from an assassinan attempt since january of 2011. she has been in rehabilitation learning to walk again and to speak. >> i pledge allegiance to theflf america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, liberty and just fisjusticefor all. >> gabriel gifford formercongre. >> unemployment may still behigt is better off now than it was four years ago. that is the stock market. the dow sored 244 points today to close at 13,292. it has not been that high since december of'07. anthony mason is in new tonight. anthony, what's going on? >> reporter: scott, the catalyst was a move
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as me colleague john dickerson observed, the president hugged clinton so hard after that speech last night, he looked like he was trying to burp him. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. last week we brought you a series of interviews here with mitt romney and his wife, anne. well, next week we'll have president obama right here on the cbs evening news. unemployment may still be high but there is one thing that is better than it was four years ago, the stock market. the dow soared 244 points today to close at 13,292. it hasn't been that high since december of '07. anthony mason is in new york tonight. anthony, what's going on? >> reporter: scott, the catalyst was a move by the european central bank that raised hopes that the european debt crisis may finally be stabilizing. that's been weighing on the market for months. the e.c.b. today announced a sweeping pan to buy up debt to prop up the euro and protect spain and italy from financial collapse. there was also good news here at home. the number of americans filing first-time unemployment claims fell by 12,000 last week to 365,000. but
as me colleague john dickerson observed, the president hugged clinton so hard after that speech last night, he looked like he was trying to burp him. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. last week we brought you a series of interviews here with mitt romney and his wife, anne. well, next week we'll have president obama right here on the cbs evening news. unemployment may still be high but there is one thing that is better than it was four years ago, the stock market. the dow soared 244 points...
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and last but of course not least, our political director john dickerson. welcome to all of you. david, let me start with you. it's going to be a full hour tonight on "60 minutes." with mark owen and scott pelley. the pentagon says that this navy seal is in material breach of his secrecy agreements with the u.s. government. what do you think of that? >> norah, all seals, like anybody who conducts classified missions or has access to classified information, sign an agreement with the government. i haven't seen what the agreement says, but i'm willing to believe that the fact that he didn't give the book in advance for clearance probably puts him in some kind of breach. but the big question is, did he reveal anything in this book that is going to materially hurt the united states? and, you know, the story that he tells is a fascinating one. no one can replicate the idea of going up the steps where bin laden is at the top. but all the really fascinating debates about the bin laden raid i think happen it's political debates that might affect the election-- happened before the raid wa
and last but of course not least, our political director john dickerson. welcome to all of you. david, let me start with you. it's going to be a full hour tonight on "60 minutes." with mark owen and scott pelley. the pentagon says that this navy seal is in material breach of his secrecy agreements with the u.s. government. what do you think of that? >> norah, all seals, like anybody who conducts classified missions or has access to classified information, sign an agreement with...
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dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he say not? a show of hands here. who would like to answer that question. >> do we know? >> it was a wonderful, long, complicated answer. the end of which left you thinking, what the heck did he just say? >> yes. nobody knew what the heck he was doing and everybody sort of went on with life. >> and with strategic, not deliberate. >> schieffer: create i think a fog so everybody can find an exit and then when the fog lift everybody is in a safe place. i think he is trying to say basically the commitments of the sequester and of the tax cuts, we can put those off if we can get a deal but that's the kind of thing that led to the sequester in the first place so i am not sure -- >> you want to give president obama a lot of cover, the economy needs to start recovering before before we make any sacrifices before we ask people to
dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he say not? a show of hands here. who would like to answer that question. >> do we know? >> it was a wonderful, long, complicated answer. the end of which left you thinking, what the heck did he just say? >> yes. nobody knew what the heck he was doing and everybody sort of...
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cbs news political director john dickerson is here. john, we're out from this first debate which is a chance for tens of millions of americans to watch these two guys side by side. what's your sense of the calculation of the race right now? >> well, the race right now, the momentum is with the president. he's doing well in the national polls and also in these battleground states. the most interesting battleground state is ohio where it looks like there have been a consistent number of polls that have shown the president pulling away. he's ahead of mitt romney outside the margin of error so things are going well for the president. the expectations couldn't be any higher for mitt romney on these debates. >> three new polls out this morning that, again, also show obama with the lead in battleground states. >> right. in new hampshire, north carolina, and in nevada. what's interesting about nevada is that the president is going to be there for three days of debate preparation. it's an early voting state. not just about november 6th in nevad
cbs news political director john dickerson is here. john, we're out from this first debate which is a chance for tens of millions of americans to watch these two guys side by side. what's your sense of the calculation of the race right now? >> well, the race right now, the momentum is with the president. he's doing well in the national polls and also in these battleground states. the most interesting battleground state is ohio where it looks like there have been a consistent number of...
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cbs news political director john dickerson is here with us. likely voters, tighter screen of people that will likely they'd the polls. obama superthree points. are you surprised? >> a little bit. usually the likely voter screen helps the republican. we're testing here whether the president got a bounce out of his convention, where the dust settled after these two conventions and it looks like in this poll and some others we've seen the president got a little bit of a bounce, appears to be in good shape and likely voter number is a good one for him. >> the presidency is not decided by a popular vote, the national vote it's decided in the battleground states. there's new polling out by the "wall street journal," key states, florida, virginia and highway. and obama is up in those polls as well. >> that's right. if you take our poll with likely voters and in those states among likely voters the president is ahead outside of the margin of error in those states that we've come to know and pay so much attention to, ohio, florida that's a big deal. >>
cbs news political director john dickerson is here with us. likely voters, tighter screen of people that will likely they'd the polls. obama superthree points. are you surprised? >> a little bit. usually the likely voter screen helps the republican. we're testing here whether the president got a bounce out of his convention, where the dust settled after these two conventions and it looks like in this poll and some others we've seen the president got a little bit of a bounce, appears to be...
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dickerson, john. >> reporter: one of the debates between the two campaigns has been who is more specific? you heard earlier tonight, vice president joe biden make fun of the republican ticket saying they weren't specific at all. tonight the president's team says the president will be specific. he'll mention five things, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit. but mitt romney offered five goals, too. er the question will be whether either side is really being specific or just being specific in naming kind of lofty goals but not telling us exactly how they're going to get there. >> pelley: the convention is being entertained now by a film which features former president clinton. and norah o'donnell has been learning some things from her sources about how the campaign intends to use president clinton going forward. norah. >> reporter: that's right, and advisers say that they thought that speech by bill clinton was vintage bill clinton, so strong, they were so pleased by it, that they've now secured an agreement to get president bill clinton to hit the
dickerson, john. >> reporter: one of the debates between the two campaigns has been who is more specific? you heard earlier tonight, vice president joe biden make fun of the republican ticket saying they weren't specific at all. tonight the president's team says the president will be specific. he'll mention five things, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit. but mitt romney offered five goals, too. er the question will be whether either side is...
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one republican official told cbs news political director john dickerson that eastwood was not scripted because they didn't want to rein in his creativity. but after a senior romney advisor rolled his eyes and acknowledged it was a distraction-- one they couldn't turn off. as another republican official put it "it's clint eastwood. if elvis wants to sing a longer leng, do you turn off his mic?" >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. now we're going to open the mic ob bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." he's already in charlotte where the democrats will be meeting here week. bob, in your opinion the hall b, in yotwood last night. last, i tell you... (laughs) you know, scott this was gonna el mitt romney's big night, when they finally had the distractions out of the way and he could lay out his program for ractioerican people. but this morning any television program you turned on, all the radio talk shows, all they were talking about was not mitt romney's speech but clinton eastwood's speech! romney mean, it was the same on the ground. as i wa
one republican official told cbs news political director john dickerson that eastwood was not scripted because they didn't want to rein in his creativity. but after a senior romney advisor rolled his eyes and acknowledged it was a distraction-- one they couldn't turn off. as another republican official put it "it's clint eastwood. if elvis wants to sing a longer leng, do you turn off his mic?" >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. now we're going to open the mic ob bob...
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dickerson. >>> time to shoppe you some of this morning's headlines. "usa today" reports the worst may be osier for this year the west nile virus outbreak. the cdc directive says we've turned the corner and that outbreak tends to peak in late august. 118 people have died nationwide in the worst outbreak since 1999. >>> the "l.a. times" reports the parent company of airbus, boeing's main rival, is in rival talks with dae system, the two european defense giants would create the world's largest aerospace company with more than $94 billion. >>> the "washington post" finds more americans are giving up banking. a new fdic report says more americans are relying on check cashers and lenders to >>> this national weather report sponsored by -- the u.s. postal service. >>> and now we see the new iphone. is it everything apple customers wanted and more? explaining why the iphone 5 is an evolution, not a revolution. on cbs "this morning." >>> this portion of cbs "this morning" sponsored by -- pieces, your fav
dickerson. >>> time to shoppe you some of this morning's headlines. "usa today" reports the worst may be osier for this year the west nile virus outbreak. the cdc directive says we've turned the corner and that outbreak tends to peak in late august. 118 people have died nationwide in the worst outbreak since 1999. >>> the "l.a. times" reports the parent company of airbus, boeing's main rival, is in rival talks with dae system, the two european defense...
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. >>> let's bring in cbs news political director john dickerson who's following the political fallout from the middle east protests. good morning, john. >> good morning, norah. >> we've seen how foreign policy on the front page, which has shifted this debate a little bit, how much does that affect these two campaigns? >> it depends how long it goes on. for the president if this is a protracted problem with images on the television screens all day long, it's a problem for him. one in that he can sort of stumble into unforced errors. two, that it could connect to a larger feeling that the romney folks have been trying to brew up for a while now, which is just there's a sense of disappointment with the promise of obama. remember when president obama came into office he said his new approach to the middle east would change things. these images don't look like change. >> john, let's turn now to the state of the campaign. two interesting pieces in the paper this morning. first in politico about some turmoil inside the romney campaign. then "new york times" in the suggesting that romney is g
. >>> let's bring in cbs news political director john dickerson who's following the political fallout from the middle east protests. good morning, john. >> good morning, norah. >> we've seen how foreign policy on the front page, which has shifted this debate a little bit, how much does that affect these two campaigns? >> it depends how long it goes on. for the president if this is a protracted problem with images on the television screens all day long, it's a problem...
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john dickerson is there. john, good morning. what are the political implications of these numbers? >> well you know in the convention here charlie, president clinton said you know, just wait, and you will feel the benefits of this economic turn-around that president obama has started. president obama last night called for patience, suggesting that the country was in the middle of a slow but upward movement. these numbers suggest the movement is not upward. if the jobs created are not keeping pace with inflation, then things are being backward. this is bad news for president obama. and after this -- what had been a pretty successful convention they felt, this is just a big wet blanket right away. >> and john mitt romney put out a statement last night saying if last night was the party, this morning is the hangover. do you think the american people will give president obama some patience with these numbers? >> well, you know they have given him a little bit of patience. if you look at the grade people give him in the polls on his economic performance, it's much lower than the overall
john dickerson is there. john, good morning. what are the political implications of these numbers? >> well you know in the convention here charlie, president clinton said you know, just wait, and you will feel the benefits of this economic turn-around that president obama has started. president obama last night called for patience, suggesting that the country was in the middle of a slow but upward movement. these numbers suggest the movement is not upward. if the jobs created are not...
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. >> cbs news political director john dickerson is in washington. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what's the dynamic of the moment we're in now? we see this exchange on "60 minutes" and we see the campaign with not that much time left. >> you know, there's not that much time left. we are in the predebate period. we've got the debate next week. what's basically happening right now for governor romney is he's got the wheels a little bit back on the bus. he wants to basically try to get back to the strategy that they had tried to put in place more than a week ago, which is to be more specific about his policies, try and connect those policies to people where they live in their daily lives, try to get off this bad string of luck that he's got, and just get ready for the debate and really use that as his platform moment. >> john, we know this is now apparently the busiest week of campaigning for mitt romney since the republican convention. why has it taken the campaign that long to sort of schedule out these rallies in these battleground state
. >> cbs news political director john dickerson is in washington. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what's the dynamic of the moment we're in now? we see this exchange on "60 minutes" and we see the campaign with not that much time left. >> you know, there's not that much time left. we are in the predebate period. we've got the debate next week. what's basically happening right now for governor romney is he's got the wheels a little bit back on the...
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. >>> we want to bring in cbs news political director john dickerson also in charlotte. good to have you with us. >> good morning, rebecca. >> how big of an issue is this? >> the key question at the center of a reelection. we see today that the obama campaign yesterday they weren't ready to say that things are better off. now they are. >> it's been a good day in the last day. things have gotten better. it's tricky, of course. if you say things are better off, you're in conflict with the majority of the country who don't think that we're better off and don't think president obama's policies have made these better. it's to argue as the mayor did, they're better off than they would have been and better off with obama than romney. that's different than saying they're better off. >> john, is it possible we hear the man trying to make that case, bill clinton, who we'll hear from wednesday night, what will we hear from him? >> i think we'll hear an enjoyable tale. he's one of the best story tellers in politics who will remind the country of where the country was, where it's com
. >>> we want to bring in cbs news political director john dickerson also in charlotte. good to have you with us. >> good morning, rebecca. >> how big of an issue is this? >> the key question at the center of a reelection. we see today that the obama campaign yesterday they weren't ready to say that things are better off. now they are. >> it's been a good day in the last day. things have gotten better. it's tricky, of course. if you say things are better off,...